Speaker summons Transport Minister over crashes – Joseph Osei-Owusu

The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei-Owusu, has called the Minister of Transport, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, to come and brief Parliament on measures the service is setting up to check the developing spate of mishaps on the streets.

The pastor has been given two weeks to show up before the House and brief individuals on such measures to make this Christmas mischance free.

This request was given after an announcement made in Parliament yesterday by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Ledzokuku, Dr Bernard Okoe Boye, on avoidable mischances on the streets and overwhelming vehicular movement in Accra.

The Ledzokuku MP lamented the neglectfulness of a few drivers prompting avoidable mishaps and the passing of blameless individuals.

He said the carelessness of a tipper truck driver almost caused the demise of an appointee Minister of Communications, George Andah, in a risky accident on the Accra-Winneba street at the end of the week.

He has in this way required the indictment of drivers who drive imprudently out and about.

Dr Okoe Boye additionally communicated worry over people on foot being thumped around speeding vehicles on the N1 roadway and the Madina-Adentan parkway and solicited the Ministry from Roads and Highways to give more footbridges on those imperative thruways in Accra.

As far as it matters for him, the NPP MP for Adentan, Yaw Buaben Asamoah, blamed the restriction National Democratic Congress (NDC) which executed that venture for neglecting to add completing contacts to the Madina-Adentan expressway yet rather chose to settle substandard streetlights for political increases.